Margaret Howe lived with a dolphin for ten weeks in the 1960s

There was a RadioLab podcast about this story a few months ago (I believe it was RadioLab). Margaret was asked about the reports of sexual contact between her and Peter. Her response was, if I can paraphrase, that Peter would get distracted during the day because of his sexual urges. This would slow down the training Margaret was trying to do and therefore she would... fulfil his urges and Peter would then start to complete his training again.

This article fails to mention a few important details that I'm sure the BBC documentary will. The lead researcher was very much into drug culture and Margaret said in the podcast that he gave drugs to some of the dolphins (not Peter) hoping that it would "open their mind" and help with the language development. I don't remember clearly, but I'm not sure if the podcast mentioned the timeline of the experiment. I was surprised to read it was only 10 weeks.

Most probably, an uncontrollable and too aggresive male dolphin (caused by forced isolation and a wrong training) is put down after the experiment. Cause of death "suicide".

Url changed from http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-w..., which points to this. Although unduly sensational, it contains new information about a historically significant experiment. We can change the URL to a better source if anybody finds one.